1. Gender Diversity
&
Equality
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2. Equality & Diversity
• What is Equality?
• Equal right and treatment to all individuals
• ‫للجميع‬ ‫واملعامله‬ ‫الحق‬ ‫في‬ ‫املساواه‬
• What is Diversity?
• Embracing these differences and creating a more
inclusive environment.
• ‫شمولة‬ ‫اكثر‬ ‫بيئه‬ ‫وخلق‬ ‫الفروق‬ ‫هذه‬ ‫احتضان‬
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3. Opportunities
• Engineering Student in Business Intelligence
• Mozilla Representative ~3 years
• Mozilla Tech Speaker
• Joined the IT world before 2010
• Embraced the Open Source within Freeways
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4. Opportunities
• Web developer
• Passionate about Data
• Think Differently ??
• Respecting Individuals:Race, Religion,
Culture,Gender, Sexual Orientation,Ability,
disability,….
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5. Opportunities
• Outreachy Program:
• Helps woman to get involved in Open Source
Software.
• internships are open internationally to women
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6. The impact
Increase the number of Woman involved in Open
Source Projects
Increase the Number of Woman in Speaking
Lead and Encourage all the other Woman/Men to
do the same.
Join more Association Like:
“ArabWomanInComputer”
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7. Gender Equality
Gender Equality is a term used
differences between men opportunity and women
opportunity in the planetary
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8. Goal 5: Gender equality
• End all forms of discrimination against all women
and girls everywhere
• Enhance the use of enabling technology, in
particular information and communications
technology, to promote the empowerment of women
• Adopt and strengthen sound policies and
enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender
equality and the empowerment of all women and
girls at all levels
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9. Gender Equality in
FLOSS
• Did we achieve Gender Equality in FOSS ??
• Github: 100 awesome woman in Open Source
Community => PageRank & Commits
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11. Gender Equality in
FLOSS
• FLOSS 2013: Showed 11% Contributors were
woman
• GNOME Foundation Members in 2015: 22 women
among 272 members - 8.1%
• Python's annual conference 2016: Speakers: 40%
women
• Google Summer of Code participation 2016: ~144
women - 12%
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12. Gender Equality in
FLOSS
• More Woman who they are simply invisible in the
community
=> Gender Neutral Name
=> Anonymity
• Some Community going to be sexist
• Dichotomy of “geeks” and “Women”=> “Women
geeks” Impossible
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13. HOW TO ENCOURAGE
WOMEN in FLOSS
• Richard Stallman said:
“Every woman should be free to share and change
software, just as every man should be.”
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14. HOW TO ENCOURAGE
WOMEN in FLOSS
• Some tips:
• Create a diversity Statement or CoC for your Community
• Recruit more Women in your Community
• Providing mutual support and an understanding environment to
discuss issues
• Explicitly invite women speaking
• Discourage Sexualized presentations
• Don't allow Sexist humor, Online harassment, or other behaviors
that discourage women
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15. In Mozilla Tunisia
• In 2016 we achieved 50% of the Active members
are women
• We are looking for more Women/Men to join
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17. Queries ?